Re: TARGET: Copyright and IEP

[Vicki Walker <vwalker@sacs.k12.in.us>]

Sarah,

I am probably going to get into trouble for saying what we do in these
situations, but I am looking out for the child's education and feel that the
IEP is more important than some publishers ideas; however, I do contact the
publishers and have found them to be most appreciative of my asking and have in
every case granted me permission. Also, when we negotiate with the textbook
publishers, we bring this topic up and have received permission.

1. We take apart a textbook and laminate each page then put it into a
three-ring binder. The child can write on the laminate and the pages can be
cleaned for the next child to use. It depends on how many children you have
needing the same book at the same time as to how many textbooks we do this way.

2. We use page magnifiers to enlarge print. Also we use scanners to place the
page on a computer screen and then we enlarge the font. Also we use screen
enlargers on our computers. Of course the obvious way is to photocopy the pages
enlarging the page from the copy machine.

Very few publishers, I would think, would get angry if you used your best
judgement. Most publishers now will accept copyright questions by fax so I
usually receive my answers very quickly.

Vicki Walker
Southwest Allen County School
vwalker@sacs.k12.in.us




Sarah Lantz,sarahl@CCPL.CARR.LIB.MD.US,Internet writes:
>Last week I addressed two of our teaching teams on the particulars of the
>U.S. Copyright Law and Congressional Guidelines and how they impact
>educators.  It was an interesting experience to put it mildly!
>
>The teachers came up with many good questions two of which follow:
>    If a student's IEP states that he/she must have a hard copy to write on
>how can we make
>    copies of text book pages?  (I would say you have to purchase a text book
>specifically for
>    that student to write in.  Any other suggestions?  What if the textbook
>is out of print?  Would
>    we really have to purchase a whole new set of books in order to meet both
>Copyright Law
>    and special ed law?)   AND
>
>    If a student's IEP states that he/she must have the print enlarged from a
>textbook or other
>    material used in class, how can we copy those (textbook or other
>materials)?   (I would say
>    you would need to write to the publisher for permission to do so.  Any
>other ideas?  What if they
>    say "no" ?  You then have one law butting heads with another law.)
>
>Thank you for any insight you can shed on these two questions.
>--
>Sally Lantz   mailto:sarahl@ccpl.carr.org
>Media Specialist
>West Frederick Middle School
>515 W. Patrick Street
>Frederick, MD 21701
>
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